estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
Archiving “The Famous Computer Cafe”
A previously lost cache of celebrity and historical interviews from a long-dormant radio show have been discovered, digitized, and made available for all.
https://blog.archive.org/2024/08/19/archiving-the-famous-computer-cafe/
Miles Davis album all done by 8 bit. Bloop- Bleep-Bloop https://kindofbloop.com
"A total of 203,946 employees have been laid off across more than 165 tech companies worldwide since the start of 2024, with firms such as Dell, Intel, and Tesla leading the cuts." https://www.bestbrokers.com/stock-brokers/2024-tech-layoffs-over-200000-jobs-slashed-globally-since-january/
A new Supreme Court case could potentially hand Arizona to Donald Trump.
This article is a good explainer.
https://www.vox.com/scotus/367701/supreme-court-arizona-rnc-republicans-mi-familia-vota
Would you wear a perfume that smells like brand new sneakers? https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/new-balance-distilled-fragrance-2023
He's actively trying to lose Pennsylvania. There's no other explanation.
My Amazon review of _The Rhine_, by Roland Recht
It's a gorgeous coffee-table book with lots of church art and architecture. Not a tourist guide. But did I mention that it's gorgeous?
Sometimes I am positive that cookbooks manufacture new recipes. I've had Nigella's _Forever Summer_ cookbook for so long that the spine has fallen apart, but I never made this recipe.
Until now.
What took me so long? It's fast to put together, uses easy-to-acquire ingredients (it worked fine with frozen fish), and scratched our, "I want something _different_" itch.
Archaeologists say an unearthed copper earring likely came from European explorers who made up part of the "Lost Colony" in modern-day Roanoke Island, North Carolina. https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/north-carolina/outer-banks/copper-earring-roanoke-island-lost-colony-roanoac/291-3ce0e7cc-d6c0-4e35-bf83-2abc1f5da155
Odeuropa is an online database of scents from 16th- to early 20th-century Europe culled from historical literature and art. https://odeuropa.eu
I can't argue with this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZZ1OWQTgqQ
Five centuries or so before the popularity of coffee as a hot beverage, a mysterious ingredient began to appear in Arabic books on medicine and botany. The descriptions of this ingredient were very similar to our familiar coffee. But rather than drinking this ingredient, it was mostly used for cleaning and freshening the hands. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/coffee-history
Eight hours of department store Christmas music
If you want to get a head start on torture season.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQKlEkKXBzQ
Eight hours of department store Christmas music, what could be better? (Anything. Anything would be better than that.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQKlEkKXBzQ
A Texas "moth man" photographed 550 species in his own yard https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/curtis-eckerman-photographer-moth-man/
"Crucial correspondence involving the Nineteen Eighty-Four author and Observer correspondent is being offered for sale on the open market, following a decision in 2018 by the publisher’s parent company to sell the archive because the warehouse was closing." https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/17/it-could-disappear-for-ever-anger-over-sale-of-george-orwell-archive
Roll Mobility allows users to filter the kind of accessibility they're looking for. The app then color-codes public places from green to red based on its accessibility. https://www.rollmobility.com
Geotab asked landscape photographer James Q. Martin to pick the ten most scenic routes from America’s 50 loneliest ones. #4 is Arizona's US Route 60 through the Navajo Nation. https://www.geotab.com/americas-quietest-routes/
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017